{"id":81491,"date":"2023-07-10T10:08:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T07:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=81491"},"modified":"2025-09-11T23:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:13:10","slug":"us-presidential-candidate-invested-about-250000-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/us-presidential-candidate-invested-about-250000-in-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"US presidential candidate invested about $250,000 in Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of June, holdings of the first cryptocurrency owned by RFK Jr., the nephew of the 35th U.S. president and a current presidential candidate, stood at between $100,001 and $250,000. This is evidenced by a <a href=\\\"https:\/\/fm.cnbc.com\/applications\/cnbc.com\/resources\/editorialfiles\/2023\/07\/07\/Candidate_Report_RFK_Jr.pdf\\\">CNBC<\/a> financial report found.<\/p>\n<p>According to the documents, the investments yielded the politician less than $201. It is not specified who precisely bought the digital asset, but Kennedy&#8217;s representatives confirmed that the funds belong to him personally.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image size-full\\\"><img decoding=\\\"async\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-10-v-09.47.39.webp\\\" alt=\\\"Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-10-v-09.47.39\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-211178\\\"\/><figcaption class=\\\"wp-element-caption\\\">Data: CNBC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Information about the candidate&#8217;s crypto investments appeared after, in May, he <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/u-s-presidential-candidates-begin-accepting-bitcoin-donations\">announced<\/a> the start of accepting donations in Bitcoin. At the Bitcoin 2023 conference Kennedy called the digital assets &#8216;a symbol of democracy and freedom&#8217;, while denying his investments in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cI am not an investor, and I am not here to give investment advice,\u201d said the candidate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In April Kennedy <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/john-f-kennedys-nephew-criticises-cbdc-and-speaks-in-defence-of-bitcoin\">called<\/a> Bitcoin an alternative to the traditional financial system. In addition, he <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-john-f-kennedys-nephew-criticised-the-sec-for-a-war-on-crypto\">criticized<\/a> American regulators for the &#8216;war on cryptocurrencies&#8217;, which led to a banking crisis in the country.<\/p>\n<p>As president, the politician <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/us-presidential-candidate-outlines-plans-to-back-bitcoin\">promised<\/a> to take decisions that &#8216;will support Bitcoin and the freedom to transact, allowing people to manage their wallets, nodes and passwords&#8217;. In his words, the country will create a simple regulatory environment that provides only &#8216;rigorous anti-money-laundering controls&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-ceo-says-us-elections-could-be-a-turning-point-for-crypto-regulation\">called<\/a> the upcoming US elections a key moment for crypto regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, support for RFK Jr. Kennedy \u2014 the younger <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/jack-dorsey-backs-bitcoin-friendly-democratic-presidential-candidate-robert-francis-kennedy-jr\">expressed<\/a> by Block founder Jack Dorsey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of June, holdings of the first cryptocurrency owned by RFK Jr., the nephew of the 35th U.S. president and a current presidential candidate, stood between $100,001 and $250,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1280,26],"class_list":["post-81491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-elections","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81493,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81491\/revisions\/81493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}